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A re-imagining created by David Eick and Ronald D. Moore of the Battlestar Galactica television series from 1978. The series first aired as a three-hour miniseries in December 2003 on the Sci Fi network and ran for four seasons thereafter, ending its run on March 20, 2009. The series featured Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated Edward James Olmos and Academy Award-nominated Mary McDonnell and garnered a wide range of critical acclaim, including a Peabody Award and the Television Critics Association’s Program of the Year Award, as well as Emmy nominations for its writing and directing.
The series was a ratings success for the SciFi Channel, and was particularly popular in Europe, Australia and the United States. Since its release, the show has received nationwide critical response from the American media, Battlestar Galactica has been honored with numerous awards and award nominations in its four-season run. It spawned the spin-off TV series Caprica, set to be broadcast in 2010.
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The story of Battlestar Galactica is set in a distant part of the galaxy, where a civilization of humans live on a series of planets known as the Twelve Colonies. In the past, the Colonies had been at war with the Cylons. With the unwitting help of a human named Gaius Baltar, the Cylons launch a sudden ambush on the Colonies, laying waste to the planets and devastating their populations. The handful of human survivors flee into space aboard any spacecraft they can reach. Of all the Colonial Fleet, the Battlestar Galactica appears to be the only military capital ship that survived the attack. Under the leadership of famed military leader Commander William “Bill” Adama, the Battlestar Galactica and its crew take up the task of leading the small fugitive fleet of survivors into space in search of a fabled refuge known as Earth.
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Kara Thrace had intended to be a professional Pyramid ball player until her knee gave out. She eventually joined the military, where she found more acceptance than she had felt at home as an abused child. Although Kara’s mother, Socrata Thrace, had served as a Marine Sergeant Major in the First Cylon War, Kara was the first person in the family to become a commissioned officer. Socrata was not content with her daughter’s military record, however, claiming she was not disciplined enough, and she was wasting her natural talent for flying. Kara’s father, Dreilide Thrace, was a piano player. He left the family when she was a child.
As a Flight Instructor at the Colonial Flight School, she met and became romantically involved with one of her students, Zak Adama. Although Zak told her he did not want any special treatment from her, Kara passed him even though he failed Basic Flight, as she could not bring herself to crush his dreams.
Her leniency cost Zak his life when he was killed on his first Viper mission. After his death, Starbuck met his father, William Adama. He realized Starbuck and Zak had been engaged and brought her under his command as a Lieutenant. Zak’s death, however, created a wedge between Adama and his other son, Lee “Apollo” Adama, who blamed his father for Zak’s death. After the funeral, Lee broke off all contact with his father and Starbuck.
Starbuck has a natural talent for flying and is considered Galactica’s best pilot, although she is also known for being an avid card player and drinker. Adama loves Kara despite her flaws and considers her something of a surrogate daughter. However, Starbuck and Colonel Tigh share a mutual sense of loathing
read more about Kara ‘Starbuck’ Thrace and her destiny at Forget Me Not
Katee Sackhoff in Battlestar Galactica There was considerable outrage from fans of the original series when producers announced their intention to re-cast Starbuck and Boomer as women, with the decision to change Starbuck’s gender especially controversial due to the character’s popularity. For Sackhoff, the reaction to the reimagined role was difficult at first. “At the start, I was young; I was stupid,” said Sackhoff. “I let the fact that people questioned whether or not a woman could play a man’s role dictate how I was going to play her”. Fans opposed to the casting of a female in the popular role expressed their discontent during production on the miniseries, and Sackhoff even received a death threat before the start of filming. During the 2004 San Diego Comic Con, the actress was booed: “I was booed. It was lovely. At that point, I’d seen the miniseries and I knew I’d done a good job. I had my confidence back. I didn’t care anymore. In 2005 Sackhoff won a Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television. Slate magazine named the character as one of the reasons they were looking forward to the return of the show in fall 2007
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